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...flight would be necessary before the rocket could be trusted to carry astronauts into space. Now, after a careful review of the troubles that cropped up in flight, NASA has decided that it can probably correct them all and make Saturn 5 safe enough to carry a manned Apollo spacecraft into orbit this November or December. By eliminating another unmanned test of the huge rocket, NASA would save about $280 million and avoid further delays in its program to place U.S. astronauts on the moon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Getting Rid of Pogo | 5/10/1968 | See Source »

...U.S.S.R. docked two unmanned satellites by remote control last October; ever since, U.S. space experts have watched and waited for the next Soviet moves toward a manned moon landing. Within the past two weeks, the Russians took two steps in that direction: a second automatic linkup of two unmanned spacecraft, Cosmos 212 and 213, in earth orbit last week; and, five days earlier, an unmanned orbiting of the moon by the spacecraft Luna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space Exploration: Racing for the Moon | 4/26/1968 | See Source »

...latest docking pas de deux in the Cosmos series, U.S. space watchers say, increases chances that Russia will send its cosmonauts to a moon landing from an earth orbit. The spacecraft that were hooked together were of the Soyuz type, each with a capacity of from three to six men. Manned, a two-Soyuz hookup could be a counterpart to the U.S. Air Force's proposed manned orbiting laboratory. Four or five of them, linked up like spokes of a wheel, could serve as an assembly plant for a manned lunar vehicle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space Exploration: Racing for the Moon | 4/26/1968 | See Source »

After spending $20 million to develop a miniaturized on-board TV camera for the Apollo spacecraft and equip tracking stations to receive its signals, NASA officials last month decided to limit its use to only two brief transmissions - one during the third manned orbital flight, the other while astronauts are actually walking on the surface of the moon. NASA's official reason for the curtailed use of in-flight TV was that the camera (which weighs only 71 Ibs.) pushed Apollo too close to its weight limitations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: TV for Apollo | 4/26/1968 | See Source »

...simians to think for the first time of a bone as a weapon. Now he is man, the killer; the naked ape has arisen, and civilization is on its way. With a burst of animal spirits, the bone is flung into the air, dissolves into an elongated spacecraft, and aeons of evolution fall away. It is 2001, the epoch of A Space Odyssey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: 2001 : A Space Odyssey | 4/19/1968 | See Source »

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